technic

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The theory, principles, or study of an art or a process.

n. Technical details, rules, or methods.

n. Variant of technique.

adj. Technical.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The method of performance in any art.

n. plural Technical terms or objects; things pertaining to the practice of an art or science.

n. plural The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.

adj. Technical

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Technical.

n. The method of performance in any art; technical skill; artistic execution; technique.

n. Technical terms or objects; things pertaining to the practice of an art or science.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Same as technical.

n. The method of performance or manipulation in any art, or that peculiar to any artist or school; technical skill or manipulation; artistic execution; specifically, in music, a collective term for all that relates to the purely mechanical part of either vocal or instrumental performance, but most frequently applied to the latter.

n. Same as technics.

Etymologies

From Greek tekhnikos, of art, from tekhnē, art; see technical.

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

Eleanor was surprised to find that Quin, while ignorant of the meaning of the word technic nevertheless had decided and worth-while opinions about every detail, and that his comments were often startlingly pertinent.

Further, the growing mastery of technic which is so clearly perceptible in the comedies of the second period must have been accompanied by a restlessness under the hampering conditions as to the manipulation of character and plot which were imposed by the less plastic material of the chronicles.

But this seeking for the right effect has little to do with the kind of technic which necessitates one to keep every muscle employed in piano-playing properly exercised, and I may reiterate with all possible emphasis that the source of my technical equipment is scales, scales, scales.